Painted Lies
Language: en
On Christmas Eve, I received a very peculiar commission request. The client was in a rush. She said money was no object and ordered five matching couple avatars in one go. I agreed immediately. I figured if I pulled an all-nighter, I could finish them by tomorrow morning. Then, I could surprise my boyfriend of five years, Liam, with a spontaneous trip to Aspen to see the snow. But when I opened the reference photos, my blood ran cold. The man in the pictures was Liam. The woman? I recognized her, too. It was Amber, the admin of Liam’s biggest fan page, back from when he first started…